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Re: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??




John Wiersba wrote:
> 
> BTW, since I haven't received even a single reply (curt or otherwise) to the
> post referenced at the bottom of this email, this might qualify as one of
> those "non-answers" being discussed in the Blunt Tools thread...
> 
> I have checked the FAQ, the Users Guide, google, the archives -- but I can't
> find a reference to this.
> 
> In the simplest case I have found, /bin/ls -lF / causes my taskbar to flash.
> My root dir contains a number of symlinks of the form: d -> /=/d where /= is
> my cygdrive prefix.
> 

My Cygwin is completely up to date.
Tried this in both rxvt and DOS windows - no flashing anything.
Even created a similar logical link - still no flashing.

It looks like you are on your own.

Cheers

Don Sharp


> Can anyone explain this or duplicate it?  Other more-complicated cases cause
> even worse flashing.  I just reloaded cygwin from scratch yesterday -- I
> didn't have this problem with my prior version (circa 12/13/00).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- John Wiersba
> 
> cygcheck -s:
> 
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Mon Jun 25 18:38:53 2001
> 
> WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service Pack 6
> 
> Path:   /usr/local/bin
>         /usr/bin
>         /bin
>         /=/d/jrw/jrw/mdst/sh
>         /=/d/opt/perl/bin/
>         /=/d/opt/vim/vim57
>         /=/d/opt/mks/mkssi
>         /=/d/opt/mks/mksnt
>         /=/d/opt/reflection
>         /=/c/dmi/win32/bin
>         /=/c/WINNT/system32
>         /=/c/WINNT
>         /=/c/progra~1/ORANT/BIN
>         /=/c/WINNT/system32/nls
>         /=/c/WINNT/system32/nls/English
>         /=/d/opt/supportmagic/sqlany50/win
>         /=/d/opt/supportmagic/netmap
>         /=/d/opt/supmagic/sqlany50/win
>         /=/d/opt/supmagic/netmap
>         /=/d/opt/tcl/bin
>         /=/d/opt/ncftp
> 
> SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
> WinDir: C:\WINNT
> 
> PWD = `/home/jrw'
> USER = `jrw'
> MAKE_MODE = `unix'
> HOME = `/home/jrw'
> 
> Use `-r' to scan registry
> 
> a:  fd  FAT        1Mb  40% CP    UN
> c:  hd  FAT     2044Mb  60% CP    UN           WINDOWS NT
> d:  hd  NTFS   17046Mb  23% CP CS UN PA FC     Data
> e:  cd           N/A    N/A
> f:  fd           N/A    N/A
> g:  net NWFS     900Mb  50% CP          FC     SYS
> h:  net NWFS   29281Mb  53% CP          FC     MEDSTAT
> j:  net NTFS   22001Mb  95% CP CS UN PA FC
> m:  net NWFS   29281Mb  53% CP          FC     MEDSTAT
> n:  net NWFS   39065Mb  91% CP          FC     MEDSTATN
> o:  net NWFS   208364Mb  15% CP          FC     MEDSTAT
> r:  net NTFS    2055Mb   5% CP CS UN PA FC
> s:  net NWFS   208364Mb  18% CP          FC     MEDSTATS
> t:  net NWFS   39065Mb  91% CP          FC     MEDSTATN
> x:  net NWFS     900Mb  50% CP          FC     SYS
> y:  net NWFS     900Mb  50% CP          FC     SYS
> 
> d:\cygwin\bin  /usr/bin  system  binmode
> d:\cygwin\lib  /usr/lib  system  binmode
> d:\cygwin  /        system  binmode
> c:    /=/c     user    binmode,noumount
> d:    /=/d     user    binmode,noumount
> g:    /=/g     user    binmode,noumount
> h:    /=/h     user    binmode,noumount
> j:    /=/j     user    binmode,noumount
> m:    /=/m     user    binmode,noumount
> n:    /=/n     user    binmode,noumount
> o:    /=/o     user    binmode,noumount
> r:    /=/r     user    binmode,noumount
> s:    /=/s     user    binmode,noumount
> t:    /=/t     user    binmode,noumount
> x:    /=/x     user    binmode,noumount
> y:    /=/y     user    binmode,noumount
> 
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
> Found: d:\opt\mks\mksnt\make.exe
> Found: d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
> 
>    56k 2000/12/03 d:\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll
>    45k 2001/04/25 d:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
>    18k 2000/10/23 d:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
>    17k 2001/01/07 d:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
>    14k 2000/10/23 d:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll
>    81k 2000/12/05 d:\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll
>    35k 2000/12/05 d:\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll
>    45k 2000/10/22 d:\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll
>   119k 2001/06/06 d:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll
>    26k 2001/04/25 d:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
>   156k 2001/04/25 d:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
>   226k 2001/04/25 d:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
>    15k 2001/04/25 d:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
>   163k 2001/05/06 d:\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll
>   108k 2001/01/07 d:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
>   390k 2000/12/05 d:\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll
>     5k 2000/12/05 d:\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll
>    10k 2000/12/05 d:\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll
>   245k 2001/06/12 d:\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll
>   623k 2000/12/05 d:\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll
>    41k 2001/05/28 d:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll
>    49k 2001/02/03 d:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
>   678k 2001/05/21 d:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         dll major: 1003
>         dll minor: 2
>         dll epoch: 19
>         dll bad signal mask: 19005
>         dll old termios: 5
>         dll malloc env: 28
>         api major: 0
>         api minor: 39
>         shared data: 3
>         dll identifier: cygwin1
>         mount registry: 2
>         cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         program options name: Program Options
>         cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         cygdrive default prefix:
>         build date: Sun May 20 23:28:17 EDT 2001
>         shared id: cygwin1S3
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Wiersba
> > Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 6:30 PM
> > To:   'cygwin'
> > Subject:      flashing taskbar
> >
> > I just reinstalled cygwin from the ground up and I notice that now the
> > taskbar flashes everytime I run any program in a cygwin terminal window.
> > It didn't do this in the previous version I had (circa 12/13/00).  Any
> > ideas on what's causing it or how to stop it?  I'm running on WinNT
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -- John Wiersba
> >
> 
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